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portraitor

noun

Etymology

From portrait + -or. Compare Middle English portratoure, portreitour, portretour, porturature, purtrator, purtreiture (“one who draws or paints”).

  1. derived from prōtrahō
  2. derived from portraict
  3. suffixed as portraitor — “portrait + or”

Definitions

  1. One who makes portraits.

    • His face was oval—not unlike in shape and beauty that which portraitors represent that of Edward VI, England’s youthful monarch; and the face of this youth was princely.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA